Previews
Out-of-Towner Showcase
by Phillip Andrew Bennett Low | 7/31/09 • ME: Is this your first time in Minnesota?
HER: Yes, it is.
ME: How is handing out postcards going?
HER: What do you mean?
ME: Y'know, are people making eye contact? Smiling?
HER: Well, they're kind of fake-smiling.
ME: (spreading arms) Welcome to Minnesota!
I attended the out-of-towner showcase on Wednesday. To be honest, I was far too fatigued to form a fair or coherent response to everything I saw.MORE »
Who am I rooting for? Fringe Lottery: 2009 Edition
by Phillip Andrew Bennett Low • The 2009 Fringe Lotto is coming up (7pm tonight at the Bedlam Theatre!) -- a time of rapture, rage, and tired testicle tomfoolery.MORE »
Out-of-towners showcase: Part two of two
by Phillip Andrew Bennett Low • July 31, 2008 • The Pumpkin Pie Show
These guys definitely get the medal for being the friendliest out-of-towners: they're the only ones who approached me, rather than the other way around.
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Out-of-towners showcase: Part one of two
by Phillip Andrew Bennett Low • July 31, 2008 • Systems: A Literal Interpretation of the Fourth Wall
I can't say that the text did much for me: it all seemed to be very clever and very quick and very cerebral, deconstructing all kinds of aspects of theatre and blah blah blah. It's certainly possible that there's more going on in the full show than was apparent during a brief preview, but the intellectual exercise ultimately feels kind of hollow to me.
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Vilification Tennis Fringe previews
by Phillip Andrew Bennett Low • July 12, 2008 • I'm cutting short my writing about the Twin Cities Improv Festival, because I've been a baaad blogger -- way behind, and Fringe season is upon us. If you still need a fix, I know that Matt Everett has a piece about it coming out for MNArtists.org.MORE »
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